On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 2:26 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > That gets in the way of our plan for world domination, > no? If you can't have a PG sitting unobtrusively in the background, > waiting for you to have a need for it, it won't get installed in the > first place. People will pick mysql, or something else with a smaller > footprint, to put on their laptops, and then we lose some more mindshare.
People are always complaining about hosting companies not supporting Postgres but put yourself in the shoes of a hosting copmany that wants to have a few hundred hosting clients all on the same box, either as a shared box or more likely these days as VMs. That's perfectly reasonable if they're all idle nearly all the time but if they're all waking up ever few milliseconds that's going to consume a substantial amount of cpu before you even start handling requests. -- greg -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
